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Digital Pen Helps Africa Fight Livestock Disease

Posted February 21st, 2014 at 1:30 pm (UTC-4)
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It began in southern Africa in 2007, when Philip Fong, FAO‘s Regional Data and Information Officer in Nairobi, Kenya turned to technology to help African countries cope with livestock diseases. What he found was that existing disease information and surveillance systems were inadequate. Officers in the field were unable to get their collected data to […]